You should sail by summer solstice, when the gods’ power is strongest.

Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

Faolin created this especially for me one summer solstice, long ago.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

The summer solstice deadline—

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

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At that time, the summer solstice of these southernmost districts, the sun had started back down, and tomorrow it would cast its last rays.

Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

In the early epochs of our race, men dwelt in temporary huts, of bowers of branches, as easily constructed as a bird’s-nest, and which they built,—if it should be called building, when such sweet homes of a summer solstice rather grew than were made with hands,—which Nature, we will say, assisted them to rear where fruit abounded, where fish and game were plentiful, or, most especially, where the sense of beauty was to be gratified by a lovelier shade than elsewhere, and a more…

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

The vernal equinox now lay three months in the past, the summer solstice had arrived.

Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

He would attach the adamantite handle the next night and all would be ready for the enchantment under the full moon on the night of the summer solstice.

R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard

…or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon’s Studies in Blue, to a publication of certified circulation and solvency or employed verbally as intellectual stimulation for sympathetic auditors, tacitly appreciative of successful narrative and confidently augurative of successful achievement, during the increasingly longer nights gradually following the summer solstice on the day but three following, videlicet, Tuesday, 21 June (S.

James Joyce -- Ulysses

What’s the summer solstice dead-line?

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

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The night of the summer solstice, when magic tingled in the air, exciting all but the rational beings who had rejected such base instinctual urges, had begun.

R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard

When she saw my eyes open, she asked, "What will happen at the summer solstice?"

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

You asked me something about the summer solstice.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

Grover mentioned the summer solstice.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

And if it isn’t returned by summer solstice, there’s going to be trouble.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

Zeus has demanded that Poseidon return the bolt by the summer solstice.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

And get it back to Olympus before the summer solstice, in ten days.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

At this rate, we’d never make it to L.A. alive, much less before the summer solstice.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

Toward the end of our second day on the train, June 13, eight days before the summer solstice, we passed through some golden hills and over the Mississippi River into St. Louis.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

We had only one day left until the summer solstice.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

I didn’t know how we were ever going to find the entrance to the Underworld by tomorrow, the summer solstice.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

Somehow, I knew what time it was: early morning, June 21, the day of the summer solstice.